In attempting to scale up restructuring efforts, the Memphis Restructuring Initiative used various strategies to acquaint schools with designs, such as inviting school leadership teams to presentations, giving schools time to research designs and narrow choices, asking schools to submit "letters of intent," and selecting 34 schools,…

This article describes the Community Service Program (CSP) established in 1998 by the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults. The CSP, which consists of a team of professional service providers, provides rehabilitation teaching, orientation and mobility services, and job development services, and help in accessing…

Describes what one school is doing in its theater faculty to seize the opportunity of "owning" an assessment program. (KEH)

Describes a program of public speaking training, including development of a written proposal, conducting the workshop in four three-hour sessions, and evaluating the program. Notes that training was well received, and reduced trainees' self-reported communication apprehension. Presents ethical guidelines for scholar/consultants. (SR)

For 10 years, the undergraduate research seminar has provided an opportunity for presentation and evaluation of undergraduate research projects, enabled students to learn about research activity and graduate study in a variety of pharmacy specialties, and created enthusiasm among students. (MSE)

Presents two interrelated stories: one concerning the author's struggles to become an effective teacher of psychology, and the second about the University of New Hampshire's graduate program in psychology and its emphasis on research and teaching. The program's two-semester Seminar and Practicum in the Teaching of Psychology is detailed, and data…

Suggests that schools implementing a literature-based, holistic language arts philosophy must be ready to support it with inservice education. Describes program design, procedures to engage teacher interest, and inservice sessions that were part of a suburban Cleveland, Ohio school's program. Concludes that, if done properly, such programs enrich…

Presents an outline of an environmental program designed for the protected coastal site in the Balearic Islands. Describes the criteria and steps used for the program planning, the characteristics of the resources and available funding. Discusses the educational potential offered by the ecological features of the islands. (four references)…

Describes "IMPACT," a comprehensive high school program that promotes a positive and supportive environment by involving students, faculty, and the community in a variety of prevention, collaboration, and intervention activities in response to students' needs. Discusses the organization of the total wellness program and components of the program.…

Describes and compares three models used in planning interpretive environmental experiences: an intuitive program-planning model; an interactive communications model; and Cherem's model, in which the audience directly influences program goals and techniques. Cherem's model includes managerial realities, but doesn't recognize the social aspect of…

Provides an overview of learning outside of the home culture, with particular emphasis on the role that memory plays. Examines the psychological literature and uses case studies to focus on the ways in which students learn bout their new society and culture and about themselves. Offers considerations for study abroad program design. (Author/VWL)

Describes the evolution of art therapy in Miami, Florida public schools over the past 20 years. Suggests the variety of tasks that must be accomplished to incorporate art therapy into the normal educational program, such as organizational and legislative collaboration, and how it will accommodate changing times. (RJM)

This program describes a program at one Minnesota elementary school that works to optimally include 32 students with emotional and behavioral disorders. The three special classes involve increasing amounts of time spent in mainstream settings with decreasing amounts of additional support. Key program characteristics include philosophy, goals,…

Outlines a conceptual model of parental involvement in family support programs, anchored in ecological and family systems frameworks. Proposes that parental decisions to enroll and remain in support programs are shaped by a variety of factors at different levels of influence, including individual characteristics of the parent and family, provider…

Describes a program that bonds high-risk students to school as a basis of developing positive behavior and an ethic of social responsibility and service. The bonding is seen as essential to the process of building social and academic skills in at-risk youth. (Author)